But that's happily all in the past, and now a healthy eating regime has finally given her the body she wants.

Because while she made her name in American Pie, she certainly hasn't eaten any lately... judging by her slender figure.

We can tell this, of course, as so much of a whiff of sugary carbohydrate in recent weeks would show in this tight red dress.

The 36-year-old donned the tiny red number, which was peppered with silver sparkles in the best tradition of dance costumes or clubbing attire, to run some errands in West Hollywood today.

The asymmetric number was teamed with a pair of equally dressy Louboutin ankle boots, which didn't look up to much wear and tear.

Super sexy: Tara made for an arresting sight on the suburban street

Reid, who was spotted dining with a mystery man earlier this week after announcing that her marriage to Zack Kehayov wasn't legal, managed to stumble across the grass to feed the meter in the unsuitable shoes, and smiled all the while.

As did a few passers by, who were enjoying the apparent random clubber loose in the sunny streets of Los Angeles.

She went under the knife in 2004, but her joint liposuction and breast enhancement operation went drastically wrong.

'It looked like I got completely butchered up,' she later said of her enlarged cleavage.

Of her liposuction, Reid added: 'I had body contouring, but it all went wrong. My stomach became the most ripply, bulgy thing.'

Dressed down: Oddly, Tara was attired for the day on a night out at Madeo restaurant in Hollywood with her mystery man on Tuesday

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Tara Reid dons skintight red mini-dress and towering heels to do her chores